Haven't read the new opinions yet, but it seems consistent with what the court has said for the past thrity-odd years. (At least so far as what I've read, and as affirmed when I asked someone, possibly you.) What a country!

Last year, I had a fun idea for a project. I'd go through Wikipedia's notable supreme court cases, and skim the opinions for "partisanship" (left or right) and "audacity" (5/4 decisions would be audacious, 9/0 would not be.) Was going to plot these on a chart (thinking it would reveal a correlation with crazy and right). Problem was that it was much too subjective (shoulda been obvious going in), and way, way too boring. Read a handful of older opinions though.

I feel bad that I never comment about your kittens. They're very cute. We got one a month or two ago, and I've intended to blog about that when in the right mood. I think it's my online imperative.

or... great minds and all that jazz, which might be more appropriate here. the project i've been kicking around is following how often and on what cases the 5 catholics end up on one side and the 4 non-catholics end up on the other.